Mark Zuckerberg regrets what he calls the Biden administration's censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic ... claiming the White House pressured META to suppress comments and theories that ran counter to the party line.
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00:00Ah yes, free speech.
00:04One of the most sacred rights that we as Americans...
00:08What the hell government, what'd we say?
00:11This guy knows what we're talking about.
00:12Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden administration pressured him to censor speech on the platform.
00:19Okay, that is a huge deal that he said this, because this is what a lot of people suspected.
00:25He wrote to the House Judiciary Committee chairman, Jim Jordan.
00:28And said senior Biden administration officials, including the White House, repeatedly pressured
00:33Facebook to censor certain stories about the pandemic.
00:36He says they did it, and he regrets it.
00:38He also says the Hunter Biden story, which the New York Post complained about their stories
00:42being pushed down.
00:43He says, yes, we did demote them because we were hearing from the administration that
00:46this might be Russian disinformation.
00:47Yeah, no, he says there was no evidence of that.
00:50I could have swayed the election.
00:52Whether it affected the election or not, it's so anti-democratic.
00:55The most important thing in this country is free speech.
00:59Well, Taylor Swift, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, then free speech, but go on.
01:03If you don't have free speech, you don't have democracy.
01:06It is good that they demote certain speech if it is Russian disinformation.
01:09So we want to talk about 2020 may have been swayed by this.
01:122016 was certainly swayed by Russian disinformation.
01:15The COVID thing to me is way more bothersome.
01:17People were shouted down.
01:19They were viewed as, you know, Trumpers, anti-vaxxers.
01:23They truly believed in the information that people were putting up on Facebook was false
01:27and was dangerous.
01:28You have to tolerate that.
01:30This is not a Republican Democrat thing.
01:32This is a democracy thing.
01:33Well, Zuck agrees and says we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.
01:38I don't want the government telling Facebook where to place things.
01:42Let us decide this.
01:43No, no.
01:44You could say that for everything.
01:46So, OK, everyone should drink and no one should wear a seatbelt.
01:48I should be able to run everywhere.
01:49Why?
01:51Are you insane?
01:54This is so depressing.
01:55OK, now you're getting it.
01:57That's America, kids.
01:59You hang in there, brother sucker.